
Ripples in Spacetime
Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
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Joel Richards
Ripples in Spacetime is an engaging account of the international effort to complete Einstein's project, capture his elusive ripples, and launch an era of gravitational-wave astronomy that promises to explain, more vividly than ever before, our universe's structure and origin.
The quest for gravitational waves involved years of risky research and many personal and professional struggles that threatened to derail one of the world's largest scientific endeavors. Govert Schilling takes listeners to sites where these stories unfolded - including Japan's KAGRA detector, Chile's Atacama Cosmology Telescope, the South Pole's BICEP detectors, and the United States' LIGO labs. He explains the seeming impossibility of developing technologies sensitive enough to detect waves from two colliding black holes in the very distant universe, and describes the astounding precision of the LIGO detectors. Along the way, Schilling clarifies concepts such as general relativity, neutron stars, and the big bang using language that listeners with little scientific background can grasp.
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Great overview, ear opener to gravitational wave
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OTW well done
Covers the field well
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This book puts the subject into easy to understand relations all the while maintaining the fact we are talking about G waves. Sometimes the science could not be taken any lower, so the use of analogies was needed. These were well thought out and fun to think about.
easy to follow with no formal Physics education
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Very incite full
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Hard to follow in places.
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Great Listen
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Interesting, but a little technical for most.
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basic info repeated
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